{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-transitional-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-transitional-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/35",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-transitional-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Contribution conditions for short-term incapacity benefit in respect of an industrial injury",
  "text": "(1) Where a person was entitled to sickness benefit under section 102 immediately before the appointed day, the contribution conditions as specified in paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 3 shall be taken to be satisfied—\n(a) for the purposes of entitlement to a transitional award of the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit in respect of that industrial injury;\n(b) for the purposes of entitlement to the lower or higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit where—\n(i) he ceased to be entitled to a transitional award as a consequence of regulation 11(2)(c), and\n(ii) no more than 57 days after he ceased to be so entitled,\nhe became incapable of work as a result of the personal injury in respect of which the transitional award referred to in head (i) was payable;\n(c) for the purposes of entitlement to short-term incapacity benefit by virtue of section 30C(5) or (6) where he becomes incapable of work as a result of the personal injury in respect of which a transitional award of incapacity benefit was made.\n(2) Where a person is entitled to incapacity benefit by virtue of paragraph (1)(b), the rate at which incapacity benefit is payable shall be the rate at which a transitional award of short-term incapacity benefit would have been payable had he been entitled to a transitional award of short-term incapacity benefit; and these regulations shall apply as if the award of incapacity benefit were a transitional award of short-term incapacity benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 2 is amended by Articles 3(2) and 5(2) of, and paragraph 38(2) of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/35/regulation/14",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}